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Brent Sheather: The truth about hedging
Why do local fund managers embrace hedging so vigorously? Personal finance and investing columnist Brent Sheather explains.
Why do local fund managers embrace hedging so vigorously? Personal finance and investing columnist Brent Sheather explains.
Benchmarks are relatively important to investors: without them the performance figures churned out by fund managers dissolve into random floating numbers, writes David Chaplin.
Top of the Lake film maker Jane Campion has directed an ANZ Bank film campaign highlighting gender wealth disparity.
Tom Hartmann takes a moment to look at a fundamental of investing: how soon you need your money back.
Is an overseas Kiwi student entitled to the Govt tax credit of $521.43 each year if making a minimum voluntary contribution of $1,042.86?
Milford Asset Management portfolio manager Mark Warminger could face a penalty of up to $1 million a trade if any of them breached market manipulation rules.
Diana Clement looks at the six biggest life insurance mistakes that Kiwis make.
Michael Cullen, the architect of KiwiSaver, wrote at the time of its launch in 2007 "that KiwiSaver would help us own more of our New Zealand businesses and that it would produce deeper capital....
Worrying stat comes as ANZ says it'll keep paying into its staff members' KiwiSaver accounts who go on parental leave.
However, fund managers expect muted reaction to yesterday's rout on Chinese stock markets.
Chuffed because you can easily see your KiwiSaver balance with your other savings accounts? They're actually radically different.
Getting your first home got a bit easier with some changes to KiwiSaver. It's now possible to buy an unbuilt home, opening up the possibility of buying off the plans.
Bad credit ratings happen to people in all walks of life. Sometimes a catastrophe such as business failure, divorce or illness leaves an erstwhile financially healthy member of the public in dire straits.
Credit card debt is considered unsecured debt unlike your mortgage where a bank can sell your house if you fail to make payments.
Personal finance columnist David Chaplin on exchange-traded funds and the NZX taking a big punt.
The number of under-18-year-olds in KiwiSaver has dropped slightly in the month since the Government removed the $1000 kickstart in May's Budget.
Milford Asset Management is to increase the hurdle it must meet to earn a performance fee on its Income Fund.
Think twice before you leave your wallet in your car - criminals are fleecing victims using contactless bank cards.
Ever wondered what the secrets are to a really successful investment strategy? Personal finance columnist Brent Sheather writes.
David Chaplin says Crown Financial Institutions have generally been a boon to government books over the last few years.
Too many options can be paralysing when you’re choosing products, so here are some tips to get you moving towards something better.
Singles on an average income have no hope of quickly saving a deposit to buy their first home, particularly in Sydney.
For two years now, Kiwis moving to Australia and Australians settling in NZ have been able to also relocate their superannuation savings.
In Deborah Battell's first year as Banking Ombudsman there were 1888 formal complaints - a 99 per cent rise.